Exposed to chickenpox and due tomorrow..

[Lemonnhoney]

My DS (aged 5) has come home telling me his best friend at school is off because he has chicken pox... he was in yesterday and they were playing together and sat next to each other.

I'm also due tomorrow so will be having the baby any time from now really!!

I feel horribly anxious about it all.. Will he develop symptoms and infect the baby?!

Not sure what I'm asking, just wanted reassurance or anyone who has been exposed at a similar time.

I took my cousins baby to a friends when she was 9 months old - my friends baby a newborn. That evening my cousins baby developed spots and had a bad case of chicken pox. I obviously let my friend know and she spoke to her midwife. They told her that as she was breastfeeding the baby would have her immunity to it as she had already had it.

I have skim read replies, so apologies if anyone has already said, but you can give the chicken pox vaccine after exposure, if I were you, I would get that for your son tomorrow. I think it's £70 for the first dose at Superdrug, and Boots do it too. If you contact your midwife, I wonder if they may be able to give it on the NHS, they do offer it in certain situations. Usually babies are protected via placental immunity for 6 months from chicken pox, so chances of baby getting it are low.

Breastfeeding doesn't help immunity for varicella, bit placental immunity does.

@user33323

I have skim read replies, so apologies if anyone has already said, but you can give the chicken pox vaccine after exposure, if I were you, I would get that for your son tomorrow. I think it's £70 for the first dose at Superdrug, and Boots do it too. If you contact your midwife, I wonder if they may be able to give it on the NHS, they do offer it in certain situations. Usually babies are protected via placental immunity for 6 months from chicken pox, so chances of baby getting it are low.

I think if this is accurate then I’d go for the vaccine if I were you. We’ve just had it and it’s really not pleasant, personally I’d just not want the anxiety of will they/won’t they catch it during the lovely early days with baby.

Hey did you baby ever develop chicken pox. We have been exposed today at 6 days old to my daughter who is currently on day 10 of chicken pox. We isolated away from her, thought she was crusted all over then found a blister (not broken) on her finger.